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Proverbs 24:17

Proverbs chapter 24 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Context

v.16For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

v.17This passage

v.18Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 42:10

    As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Psalms 35:15

    But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

  • Judges 16:25

    And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars:

  • 2 Samuel 16:5

    And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and cursed still as he came.

  • Obadiah 1:12

    But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

  • Job 31:29

    If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him